記述

This hardcover book with 332 full color pages with great illustrations, presents the Paris porcelain and bisque - called in France biscuits, from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century.Paris bisque porcelain are often associated with great names of porcelain manufacturers, such as Guérhard, Dihl, Gille jeune Desprez and Nast.Spectacular clocks, gigantic statues, busts of human scale, these figures or groups in porcelain unglazed are relatively unknown yet; imagine them white, but they can be blue, black, gold or polychrome. The Paris bisque porcelain is very popular among amateurs as prestigious as George Washington and the Prince Regent of England.After a presentation of the origins of porcelain and manufacturing techniques, the author leads us to the heart of the bustling life of thirty-one manufactures of the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing almost focusing closely to the work of workers, artists and investors, as well as general economic conditions.Observing the influence of Parisian manufactories in Europe and France, the author also measured provincial and foreign competition. A thorough analysis of shapes, colors, and association of bisque porcelain with bronze, gold, silver and crystal, lets consider the evolution allows to consider the evolution of the style of bisque, of which eight hundred are mentioned and two hundred illustrated in this book.Providing an essential identification tool to researchers and collectors, a catalogue raisonne of Parisian manufactories completes this great study devoted to the art of porcelain in Paris.